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Parisdame
August 30, 2010

The Story of Super Star Barbie

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This is for the August The Darker Side challenge. It didn't turn out as "dark" as I wanted but it's done!

Here is the journaling - I had a hard time taking a picture with the refelctive foil on the title. TFL!

It’s just a Barbie doll. I kept thinking I was just being silly. Why was it so important?
On that June day so many years ago it was a like watching a movie in slow motion. My mother was panicked as we loaded up the back of a pickup truck with whatever we could fit in. My mom at least grabbed her hope chest and the pots and pans. For some reason, in amidst of the chaos, I forgot my beloved Barbie. And then we were gone and never to return to that house, to my father or to that life of desperation.

Over the years I would scour every garage sale, second hand shop and even ventured online. Nothing. I made a remark one day that I would marry the man who bought me an original Superstar Barbie. Years went by. I never forgot but it became less important. Then I met Chad. We are discussing childhood toys and I mentioned the Barbie briefly without the tale of woe behind her disappearance from my life. A few months later on the way to meet my family and friends for the first time, Chad gave me a treasure. He found an original Superstar Barbie still in the box. He had no idea how much it meant to me until I cried like a baby holding that doll in her box. Little wonder I married him less than a year later.


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